Posted on 08/23/2014 2:38:11 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Israel is considering launching another heavy ground offensive into Gaza, Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) indicated Saturday, in the wake of renewed rocket fire and an exodus of Negev residents from their homes.
"Has the decision been made? No," Erdan stated to Channel 2 News. "But we are closer to it than we ever have been."
A ground offensive would be the most extensive so far since the 2005 Disengagement, Erdan said. No matter what, he stressed, Israel would take action.
"We are committed to this operation, and making sure it does not revert to how life was before," Erdan emphasized. "But we need patience and determination."
"We cannot revert everything such that Hamas will be able to rebuild everything it has lost, and it has lost a lot - many tunnels, a considerable amount of its rocket arsenal, and several leaders," he added. "Hamas continues to fire rockets at us and it is not working [to scare Israel]."
"Hamas continues a war of attrition and we are pounding them by air, but this is not a situation that can persist for weeks," he continued. "The purpose of a ground offensive could be retaking Gaza fully and the collapse of Hamas rule, or specific attacks on the organization itself."
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Gee. They’re almost as serious as we are about this business.
Agreed, just do it. By the way take few prisoners.
The only incursion should be heavy, heavy bombs. Bounce the rubble. The hamasians are begging you to kill them so they can be martyrs.
Don’t SAY that! (teeth chattering, knees knocking, hyperventilating).
“How long can we safely allow them to keep killing each other?”
You can’t. The winner of this genocidal war will be sitting on an ocean of oil, on one side of the Shat elArab waterway. Iran is on the other side.
Israel doesn’t need to be weighing an “incursion”, they need to be weighing the total conquest of Gaza and the destruction of Hamas so no more rockets will be fired.
The previous “incursion” has not stopped the barrages.
IN WAR THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR VICTORY....
I’m going to make this clear to Bibi, his cabinet, and those in the Knesset.
Until you kick their butts out of Gaza and the West Bank they are never going to quit committing terrorism against the Israeli citizenry.
It’s been on wash, lather, rinse, and repeat mode since 1948. It’s getting kinda old.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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